Savage Art: ABiography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito

Savage Art: ABiography of Jim Thompson

Robert Polito

560 pages 1995

1 edition

nonfiction biography crime dark slow-paced
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Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting lig...

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